%0 Journal Article
%T Nigerian Immigrants as ¡®Liminars¡¯ in Ghana, West Africa: Narratives on Mobility, Immobility and Borderlands
%A Thomas Antwi Bosiakoh
%J Journal of Asian and African Studies
%@ 1745-2538
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0021909619827036
%X The mobility/immobility research frontier in migration scholarship has gained ascendancy since the beginning of this century with some studies highlighting the need for broader global trends in cross-border mobility/immobility research. This article on Nigerian immigrants as ¡®liminars¡¯in Ghana, West Africa, is an attempt to join the global cross-border mobility/immobility discourse on mobile people. It is anchored in the qualitative research tradition with the empirical data generated through in-depth interviews, observations and market conversations with 41 Nigerian immigrant entrepreneurs in Accra (the capital of Ghana), Kumasi (the second largest city after Accra) and Ashaiman (a sprawling sub-urban settlement). In a three-theme analysis approach, the paper shows three intersections in mobilities, immobilities and borderland accounts, namely mobility/borderland, trapped/living in a borderland space, and immobility in temporal-spatial borderland, and places the immigrants into a liminar category. This article is a contribution to understanding the mobility/immobility research frontier from the perspective of the global south and its impact on global southern ¡®citizens¡¯
%K Mobility/immobility
%K borderland
%K liminar
%K Nigeria
%K Ghana
%K West Africa
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0021909619827036